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HQ includes three basic components: a server (featuring the web-based dashboard), an agent (installed on the machines to monitor), and command-line server tools. The HQ Installer bundle includes HQ Server, HQ Agent, command-line tools, a PostgreSQL database server, and a JRE (Sun JRE 1.5). To run HQ Server on the same machine that is monitored, that's it. To monitor multiple systems on different platforms (operating system, CPU architecture), download at least the installer bundle and one of the agent files.

For platforms not supported by Hyperic, either download a "Platform Independent" bundle, which requires a separate database and JRE already configured, or download and build from source.

Hyperic HQ is an IT-management framework that gives its users the ability to manage many different types of technologies (in Hyperic lingo, resources) from a single interface. With Hyperic HQ, you can:

* Inventory the resources on your network * Monitor those resources * Alert on problems with those resources * Control those resources

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Inventory the Resources on Your Network

Hyperic HQ maintains an inventory of your network through an auto-discovery process. HQ organizes what it finds on your network as prescribed by HQ's inventory model. This process of discovering and inventorying is the foundation for all other HQ capabilities.

* Auto-discover resources (Hyperic's umbrella term for platforms, servers, and services) * Define applications collections of platforms, servers, and services organized to fulfill a single business purpose and view supporting resource maps * Manage inventories for all these platforms, servers, services, and applications

(In addition to creating resources automatically through auto-discovery and allowing users to manually create them through the UI, HQ allows for direct import of resources through the HQ Shell.)

Monitor Your Resources

Hyperic HQ provides both numerical (for example, throughput) and non-numerical (for example, logs, configuration data) data for all resources under its management. With this wealth of data, you can: